Tiger - Spy in the Jungle - Netflix

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Elephants carrying spy cameras tell the story of four tiger cubs growing
up in the Indian Jungle. Over two years the cameras track their
development from young cubs into adult hunters.

Type: Documentary

Languages: English

Status: Ended

Runtime: 50 minutes

Premier: 2008-03-30

Tiger - Spy in the Jungle - BBC Natural History Unit - Netflix

The BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) is a department of the BBC which
produces television, radio and online content with a natural history or
wildlife theme. It is best known for its highly regarded nature
documentaries, including The Blue Planet and Planet Earth, and has a
long association with David Attenborough's authored documentaries,
notably Life on Earth. The Natural History Unit is a specialist
department within BBC Factual Production, which is itself part of BBC
Studios. Each year it produces around 100 hours of television and 50
hours of radio programmes, making it the largest wildlife documentary
production house in the world. The BBC commissions programmes from the
Unit for broadcast on five terrestrial television channels (BBC One, BBC
Two, BBC Four, CBBC and CBeebies) and BBC Radio 4. Content is marketed
internationally under the BBC Earth brand by the corporation's
commercial arm, BBC Studios. Original content is also broadcast on the
Earth Unplugged YouTube channel. The Unit has been based in Broadcasting
House, Bristol since its formation in 1957, and has been headed by
Julian Hector since 2016.

Tiger - Spy in the Jungle - Building on success - Netflix

The Natural History Unit made its name with Life on Earth, and was
rewarded by being awarded departmental status by BBC management in
December 1979. Christopher Parsons, by then its most experienced
producer, became the first official Head of the Unit. It celebrated its
silver jubilee in 1982 with the miniseries Flight of the Condor, and
sealed its reputation as one of the foremost production companies for
popular natural history films in the following decades. A succession of
series have followed the format established by Life on Earth, often
presented or narrated by Attenborough, and transmitted on the BBC's main
channel. The Blue Planet (2001) and Planet Earth (2006) typify these
signature programmes, characterised by high production values,
specially-commissioned musical scores and often ground-breaking footage
of wildlife from around the globe. The NHU has also diversified into
other programme formats. Its Diary series have featured African big
cats, elephants, orang-utans and bears in a nightly wildlife soap opera.
Among of the longest-running programmes has been Wildlife on One
(1977–2005) which was broadcast in a regular evening slot. The
Continents strand on BBC Two has featured series on all the world's
major land areas over the past eighteen years, including Spirits of the
Jaguar (1996), Land of the Tiger (1997), Andes to Amazon (2000) and Wild
Down Under (2003). Also on BBC Two, the annual Springwatch (since 2005)
and Autumnwatch (since 2006) series have brought live pictures of
British wildlife into millions of homes.